The two entered the small temple and indeed found no danger whatsoever.

The temple was very small, with only the main hall facing them and two side halls on the left and right. Behind the main hall was a path, presumably leading to the back courtyard where the novices rested.

Yue Qi led the inspection of the main hall and found that the altar in the center was empty, with no gods or Buddhas enshrined there. This was rather strange.

"Yan Qing, was the main hall like this when you came last time?"

Yan Qing shook her head; to be honest, she hadn't noticed last time. But—

"The last time I came here was in the middle of the night. The doors to the main hall were closed. The only door that was half-open was over there—"

She pointed to the side hall on the left side of the main hall, "There is a Yaksha statue enshrined there."

"Yaksha?"

Completely bewildered, Yue Qi arrived at the left hall and immediately spotted the enormous black Yaksha statue.

Completely black, with a head like a camel's hump, wings on its back, an ugly face, and a huge body, holding a massive iron fork, it is undoubtedly the legendary Yaksha King.

However, the most conspicuous thing is not the Yaksha statue, but the row of drawers on the altar below the statue that have been forcibly opened, empty and particularly jarring.

Yan Qing felt a jolt of fear. No way!

She remembered very clearly that she had obtained those eighteen Asura Netherworld Tokens from the drawer.

She looked at the corpses scattered on the ground outside the door in disbelief, and a bold idea popped into her mind.

Could these people be here for the Asura Netherworld Token?

Now that things have come to this, there are some things that must be said.

"Um—actually, I have a secret." Yan Qing spoke hesitantly, her gaze towards Yue Qi filled with caution.

Yue Qi didn't say anything, just looked at her quietly, his eyes filled with undisguised trust.

“A year ago, I came here to obtain something, namely the eighteen Asura Netherworld Tokens.”

Yan Qing was somewhat embarrassed. "At the time, I didn't know the significance of these items. Since I didn't need them, I sold them. It wasn't until recently, at Cangyun Mountain, that I learned their true value and function for the first time."

"So you think that all these dead people actually came for the Asura Netherworld Token?"

Yue Qi seemed to understand her perfectly, immediately pointing out her guess.

"Yes, that's exactly what I think." Yan Qing nodded, then began to struggle with her decision.

"There's just one thing I don't understand. I sold the item a year ago, so how did it end up in the Hundred Thousand Mountains on its own?"

She couldn't explain this problem no matter what she tried. It couldn't possibly be that there were two identical sets of Asura Netherworld Tokens, could it?

Yue Qi also fell into deep thought. "According to the Great Shaman, this object was left in this world a thousand years ago by the Yaksha King to suppress the cave gods who had escaped to this place. Later, the Great Shaman used generations of Fallen Flower Cave Maidens to remove the eighteen Asura Netherworld Tokens one by one, breaking the suppression formation. However, the whereabouts of the Asura Netherworld Tokens have never been mentioned."

Yan Qing had learned a lot about this from Chu Jiang and did know a bit about it.

"I know that more than a hundred years ago, Chu Jiang's fiancée mentioned that her family possessed this item, and that her family also came from the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Obviously, a certain girl from the Fallen Flower Cave secretly took it out, and the item was immediately shattered into pieces until it was collected again by a girl named Qingqing more than a hundred years ago. In that same year, Qingqing passed away, and the mysterious gold-rank title of Chu Jiang was born. The whereabouts of the eighteen Asura Netherworld Tokens have been unknown ever since."

The rest of the story is unknown. How it suddenly ended up at the nameless little temple on Mount Qingcheng remains a mystery forever.

After hearing this story, Yue Qi didn't know how to comment. Instinctively, he felt that this Asura Netherworld Token was indeed very important. So he confirmed with Yan Qing again.

"Is this really in your possession?"

Yan Qing nodded, took out eighteen small black wooden plaques from her bosom, and handed them to Yue Qi.

Before Yue Qi could even take it, the huge black Yaksha statue in the center of the hall above his head suddenly shattered, scattering stones all over the ground.

Fortunately, the two were quick and managed to dodge it.

Dust swirled around the hall, and when things finally calmed down, she was surprised to discover that there seemed to be something inside the broken statue!

"Yue Qi, quick, get that thing out of the statue!"

As soon as she spoke, Yue Qi flew out, picked up a small wooden box with his longsword, and examined it in his hand.

"What is this?" The small wooden box looked familiar. She remembered that the box the Great Shaman used to decorate the Luo Youming Token was made of the same material.

Yue Qi was quite direct: "Why don't you just open it and see?"

The small wooden box wasn't locked and opened very easily. However, what was inside was completely different from what she had imagined.

Inside the small black wooden box lay a tiny, cyan coffin, carried atop a small, menacing cyan dragon.

"Azure Dragon Carries the Coffin!!"

The two of them exclaimed at the same time. This miniature Azure Dragon Coffin was so similar to the one they had ridden in several times. Except for being a little smaller, it was exactly the same as the Azure Dragon Coffin she had ridden in several times!

However, this small bronze coffin was clearly not behaving properly, and actually tried to escape while they were distracted! Fortunately, Yue Qi was quick and grabbed it.

Then he stuck several talismans on it in one go, binding it tightly.

Then he closed the small wooden box and handed it to Yan Qing.

"I think it's better if you keep this item."

Yan Qing did not refuse. She had originally planned to ask Yue Qi for it, but she didn't know how to bring it up.

Now that she has this item in her hands, although she doesn't know what it's for, she instinctively feels that it is very important to her.

It's just unknown what the connection is between this miniature Azure Dragon Coffin and the enormous Azure Dragon Coffin she once sat in.

After putting their things away, the two searched the small temple thoroughly, but still found nothing.

There was absolutely no clue as to where those Xuanmen disciples and those high-level zombies came from or why they died here.

Left with no other choice, the two had to leave.

The moment I stepped onto the white, bright passage again, Mount Qingcheng behind me suddenly vanished completely, as if it had never existed at all.

Emerging from the brightly lit passage, the two were confronted by an impatient-looking Wen Jiajia.

Miss Wen stood with her hands on her hips, her expression practically on the verge of exploding.

"Hey you two, why are you taking so long to walk? I've been waiting for you for ten minutes already! If I keep waiting, the last shuttle bus will be gone, and how are you going to compensate me?!"

Beside her, Su Su covered her mouth, laughing shyly.

Yan Qing and Yue Qi exchanged a glance, both noticing each other's puzzlement.

"Wait a minute, didn't they separate in the passageway? Could it be that they've lost their memories?"